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almafu_9960119165902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-272-1
Content:
In 1700 the fastest coach from London to Manchester took five days. By 1790 the development of the turnpike road system across England had reduced this figure to twenty-seven hours, and both the landscape and the ways in which people experienced it had been radically transformed. This revolution in transport came at the same time as the emergence of the novel as a dominant literary form in Britain. In this highly original reading of some of the major novelists of the long eighteenth century - Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne and Austen - Chris Ewers shows how these two developments interacted. He argues that this reconfiguration of local geography and the new experience of moving through space at speed had a profound effect upon the narrative and form of the novel, leaving its mark on genre, prose technique, the depiction of class and gender relations and the way texts are structured. It is no accident, he concludes, that the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as a master trope, is roughly co-terminous with the revolution of internal transport in Britain. CHRIS EWERS is a lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Exeter
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgements --
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Notes on the Text --
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Introduction: Mobility and the eighteenth-century novel --
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1 Travelling by sea and land in Robinson Crusoe --
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2 Tom Jones and the epic of mobility --
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3 Smollett and the changing landscape of the ramble --
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4 Sterne and the invention of speed --
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5 Crash: Sentimental journeys and alternative mobilities --
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6 Northanger Abbey and Austen’s ‘wandering story’ --
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Conclusion --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78327-296-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781787442726
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787442726/type/BOOK
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